Weekends here, good God almighty
Baby, lets get drunk and be somebody
- Toby Keith (Get Drunk and Be Somebody)
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Now That's Dedication
I actually cut my lunch break short today to get work done. Is that dedication or what?
I then took a couple minutes to share this with you all. Hmmm.
I then took a couple minutes to share this with you all. Hmmm.
Waiting
The commute in to work today went fairly well today until we approached Union Station and the train slowed and agonizingly inched forward. Impatient to get off the train (not so much to get to work though) this ten minutes felt like an eternity. Whenever you have a machine that is capable of high speeds go slower than an easy jog, time always seems to stand still.
Wanting to see what the delay was all about I scoped out the scene and saw nothing. That's right, all the tracks inside Union Station were abandoned. Nary a soul was stirring, at least on the side I was looking at, the side with all but three tracks on it. After straining my neck some, I saw our predicament. There was a train on our track. So we waited outside of Union while the other tracks sat empty. They did eventually fill up, some even emptying again, while we waited but that didn't make me feel any better about the situation. Finally, our number was called, "Seinfeld table for four", and our workday began.
Wanting to see what the delay was all about I scoped out the scene and saw nothing. That's right, all the tracks inside Union Station were abandoned. Nary a soul was stirring, at least on the side I was looking at, the side with all but three tracks on it. After straining my neck some, I saw our predicament. There was a train on our track. So we waited outside of Union while the other tracks sat empty. They did eventually fill up, some even emptying again, while we waited but that didn't make me feel any better about the situation. Finally, our number was called, "Seinfeld table for four", and our workday began.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Just A Man
So today is the day the world changes. Barack Obama gets the keys to the White House.
I for one am not buying all this hype. President Obama does not have lightning bolts shooting from his ass nor can he run faster than a speeding bullet. He is just a man. Just a man with ideas. Some will turn out to be good ones, others bad ones. If he survives his first four years, he will get another four. That's all folks. Then he will go on to make millions speaking at conferences and holding seminars. And our tiny insignificant lives will be no better for him having served his term in office.
So President Obama, enjoy your moment in the spotlight and best of luck living up to even half the expectations that have been put on you. If I am proven wrong so be it, I don't claim to be very intelligent, let alone a political expert.
I for one am not buying all this hype. President Obama does not have lightning bolts shooting from his ass nor can he run faster than a speeding bullet. He is just a man. Just a man with ideas. Some will turn out to be good ones, others bad ones. If he survives his first four years, he will get another four. That's all folks. Then he will go on to make millions speaking at conferences and holding seminars. And our tiny insignificant lives will be no better for him having served his term in office.
So President Obama, enjoy your moment in the spotlight and best of luck living up to even half the expectations that have been put on you. If I am proven wrong so be it, I don't claim to be very intelligent, let alone a political expert.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Browsing the Headlines
While on lunch I like to browse the news and today I found a couple headlines on thestar.com that I just couldn't resist commenting on.
"GO predicts normal schedule for afternoon commute"
- translation: riders can expect the usual delays but they will be far shorter, or at least far fewer, than the ones experienced this morning.
"Lincoln will be at heart of Obama's inaugural"
- would inauguration not be a better form than inaugural in this context?
"GO predicts normal schedule for afternoon commute"
- translation: riders can expect the usual delays but they will be far shorter, or at least far fewer, than the ones experienced this morning.
"Lincoln will be at heart of Obama's inaugural"
- would inauguration not be a better form than inaugural in this context?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Answer to My Riddle
I think I have gotten the only guess that I am going to get so here is the much anticipated answer to my riddle:
I am a GO train
(it's mostly green anyhow)
I hope you all, meaning, I hope Stinky T had fun trying to solve my somewhat obscure riddle.
After Christmas Let Down
Several months ago a co-worker came up with a nickname for me and has been using ever since. That is until the new year started.
In early December I decided I needed to figure out a nickname for this person in return. A week went by and I had nothing. A second week went by and I thought I had one, even if I thought it was too Hollywood, but as it turned out, that nickname has been used and tarnished already. So I was left to ponder once again.
I set myself a deadline of Christmas to figure out a nickname for this person, you know, to serve as a kind of present for him. As of now I still have no nickname for him and the lack of creativity on my part has let down my coworker so much that he has stopped using my nickname when we pass in the halls. If only his name was more conducive for just adding a “y” at the end… I don’t think he would have let me get away with something so simple anyhow.
In early December I decided I needed to figure out a nickname for this person in return. A week went by and I had nothing. A second week went by and I thought I had one, even if I thought it was too Hollywood, but as it turned out, that nickname has been used and tarnished already. So I was left to ponder once again.
I set myself a deadline of Christmas to figure out a nickname for this person, you know, to serve as a kind of present for him. As of now I still have no nickname for him and the lack of creativity on my part has let down my coworker so much that he has stopped using my nickname when we pass in the halls. If only his name was more conducive for just adding a “y” at the end… I don’t think he would have let me get away with something so simple anyhow.
What Am I?
I'm in a good mood today so I thought I'd play a little game with y'all: What am I? Everybody knows how to play so good luck (it should not be that hard because I am far from the master riddler, heck even a preschool riddle could stump me).
I am long and green and not very bold,
The rain and the wind make me feel old,
I fear the snow and the cold,
Even sunny weather puts me on hold
What am I?
That's the best I could do but at least I rhymed! The answer will come later but I am sure someone will figure this out.
I am long and green and not very bold,
The rain and the wind make me feel old,
I fear the snow and the cold,
Even sunny weather puts me on hold
What am I?
That's the best I could do but at least I rhymed! The answer will come later but I am sure someone will figure this out.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Time to Work
Well, it's now almost 10:00 on a Monday morning and I have yet to do anything work related. I guess it's time to start even though I have lots of other stuff I can do to waste the day away. Only problem with that is my desk is bare so I guess it's time to start looking for some work to do. This sucks!
Thursday, January 01, 2009
December 2008 Quotes
One of the greatest assets any man or woman can have on entering life's struggle is poverty.
- Richard Bedford Bennett
money is the worst of all contrabands because it commands everything else
- William Jennings Bryan
In a nation with 200 million people, a certain number of deranged people exist.
- Robert A Liston (Politics: From Precinct to Presidency)
I have not seen…any suggested changes that could replace our existing system without entirely eliminating one of the factors in our civilization that has contributed greatly to the progress of the world---that is, individual initiative, coupled with the desire to acheive and succeed.
- Richard Bedford Bennett
It is man alone who brings light to this world. Nature is dark, brooding and cruel. What compassion there is in the earth flows from the sterling heart of man.
- Whitley Strieber (Majestic)
man is more inclined to justify himself, no matter what, than to confess a guilt, admit a wrong, acknowledge a mistake.
- Robin Brockman (The Message)
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
- John Lennon (Imagine)
One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
Not only bounded to peculiar arts,
But oft in those confined to single parts.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, Part I)
Be just, and generous when you have the means. Wealth will not take care of itself if not vigilantly cared for.
- John H R Molson
There is nothing dramatic about a mistake not made.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
- Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
Men never seemed to understand, or care, when a woman wished to be looked at and when not.
- Robert Jordan (New Spring)
It takes great courage to love one's true self.
- Whitley Strieber (Majestic)
sooner or later even the worst luck changes.
- Stephen King (Cujo)
…if you're not prepared to defend yourself, then you'd better not do it.
- Peter C Newman (The Canadian Establishment: Volume One)
Love it hard and it will love you back hard. Try to play it easy and ease off and the first thing you know, there you are, on the outside, looking in, wondering what went wrong.
- Pete Rose
A good society is one in which the greatest possible number of persons enjoy the greatest possible amount of happiness.
- John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
Man's virtue is…the quality which enables him to 'live well', for living is the soul's function; and to live well is to be happy.
- from The Republic of Plato, translated by Francis MacDonald Cornford
A person has to listen to others. He has to allow himself to be influenced to a certain extent.
- Robert A Liston (Politics: From Precinct to Presidency)
a lasting peace must be 'a peace without victory.
- Woodrow Wilson
The desireableness of a life is to be measured by the amount of interest and not the amount of ease in it.
- George MacDonald
there is a greater chance of success if two roads are open then if either one alone was.
- Isaac Asimov (Prelude to Foundation)
And he dreamed of another world
In another time
And another place
Where no man
Has to wear a sign
Saying where he's from
Saying what's his race
And he wants us to believe
This world that he sees
- The Trans-Siberian Orchestra (The World That He Sees)
Happy Birthday!
- Frosty the Snowman
Weight goes up or down as it ought. I shouldn't concern myself.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)
it is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time.
- Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)
What counts is the person, not the name.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)
Women do not become exhausted...they only exhaust others.
- Robert Jordan (Lord of Chaos)
…an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it.
- John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
Endings always come too fast,
They come too fast but they pass too slow
- Art Garfunkle (All I Know)
- Richard Bedford Bennett
money is the worst of all contrabands because it commands everything else
- William Jennings Bryan
In a nation with 200 million people, a certain number of deranged people exist.
- Robert A Liston (Politics: From Precinct to Presidency)
I have not seen…any suggested changes that could replace our existing system without entirely eliminating one of the factors in our civilization that has contributed greatly to the progress of the world---that is, individual initiative, coupled with the desire to acheive and succeed.
- Richard Bedford Bennett
It is man alone who brings light to this world. Nature is dark, brooding and cruel. What compassion there is in the earth flows from the sterling heart of man.
- Whitley Strieber (Majestic)
man is more inclined to justify himself, no matter what, than to confess a guilt, admit a wrong, acknowledge a mistake.
- Robin Brockman (The Message)
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
- John Lennon (Imagine)
One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
Not only bounded to peculiar arts,
But oft in those confined to single parts.
- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, Part I)
Be just, and generous when you have the means. Wealth will not take care of itself if not vigilantly cared for.
- John H R Molson
There is nothing dramatic about a mistake not made.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
- Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
Men never seemed to understand, or care, when a woman wished to be looked at and when not.
- Robert Jordan (New Spring)
It takes great courage to love one's true self.
- Whitley Strieber (Majestic)
sooner or later even the worst luck changes.
- Stephen King (Cujo)
…if you're not prepared to defend yourself, then you'd better not do it.
- Peter C Newman (The Canadian Establishment: Volume One)
Love it hard and it will love you back hard. Try to play it easy and ease off and the first thing you know, there you are, on the outside, looking in, wondering what went wrong.
- Pete Rose
A good society is one in which the greatest possible number of persons enjoy the greatest possible amount of happiness.
- John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
Man's virtue is…the quality which enables him to 'live well', for living is the soul's function; and to live well is to be happy.
- from The Republic of Plato, translated by Francis MacDonald Cornford
A person has to listen to others. He has to allow himself to be influenced to a certain extent.
- Robert A Liston (Politics: From Precinct to Presidency)
a lasting peace must be 'a peace without victory.
- Woodrow Wilson
The desireableness of a life is to be measured by the amount of interest and not the amount of ease in it.
- George MacDonald
there is a greater chance of success if two roads are open then if either one alone was.
- Isaac Asimov (Prelude to Foundation)
And he dreamed of another world
In another time
And another place
Where no man
Has to wear a sign
Saying where he's from
Saying what's his race
And he wants us to believe
This world that he sees
- The Trans-Siberian Orchestra (The World That He Sees)
Happy Birthday!
- Frosty the Snowman
Weight goes up or down as it ought. I shouldn't concern myself.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)
it is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time.
- Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)
What counts is the person, not the name.
- Isaac Asimov (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain)
Women do not become exhausted...they only exhaust others.
- Robert Jordan (Lord of Chaos)
…an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it.
- John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
Endings always come too fast,
They come too fast but they pass too slow
- Art Garfunkle (All I Know)
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